by Patricia Wellingham-Jones Tell that to the ravens plucking out eyes on the blood-packed sand To fathers cradling the last of their hopes in torn bodies To young girls swelling with the unwanted gifts of swift strong soldiers To mothers and wives pulling on veils of grief as they wash their dead Inform the children who wander dazed with thirst, alone
among ruins
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Clean War
by Patricia Wellingham-Jones
Tell that to the ravens
plucking out eyes
on the blood-packed sand
To fathers cradling
the last of their hopes
in torn bodies
To young girls swelling
with the unwanted gifts
of swift strong soldiers
To mothers and wives
pulling on veils of grief
as they wash their dead
Inform the children
who wander dazed with thirst, alone
among ruins